Bai Gui's original intention was to transfer the population from all over the Great Zhou. There are people from all countries, not one country, one family, one family.

This migration of a country, a family, a family can easily form a fortress. When the time comes! They may form a strategic fortress and disobey your orders.

For example, in the current situation, more than 10,000 people migrated from Wei at once, and after they went to the grassland, they definitely had to live together and form a "tribe".

Some tribes in the steppe have a population of less than 10,000 people.

After these people from the Wei State came to the grassland, they would soon adapt to it collectively and form their own living customs.

Furthermore! They live together, and they must be very united for the time being. If they encounter the savage steppe people, they dare to fight.

But what? The forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds.

When the time comes! All sorts of characters will pop up and form their own influence.

When the time comes! If you want to train them, it will be difficult, and they may rebel en masse.

Don't look now! They came to the prairie with your help, and they still obey you. But once they get their footing, they may not hang you.

So! Bai Gui means: to send people from the various vassal states of the Great Zhou Dynasty. And! For the time being, the number of people cannot be large.

10,000 people! For Linquan Castle, which has not yet formed a scale, it is a bit of a burden. At least! You have to make sure that these people have food for half a year. It is only when these people settle down and the first crop is harvested that it is over.

Only those who settle here can produce food that can not only feed themselves, but also have a surplus, so that they can increase the population in proportion.

Just like the state produces money, it cannot be produced indiscriminately, but must be produced in proportion to the country's GDP and growth. Otherwise! If the coin is depreciated, it will not be worth anything.

If the population increases too quickly, the country will not be able to get rich because of the large number of people. If the population growth rate is too slow or there is no population, a country's economy will not be able to get up.

Especially in this era of cold weapons, population is productivity. Without a population, the country is absolutely impoverished and cannot be developed.

The key question now is that not more than 10,000 of the more than 10,000 people who migrated from Wei were laborers, and two-thirds of them were women, children, and the elderly.

As you can imagine! When these people migrated, they were left to fend for themselves, and they simply had no ability to produce surplus food.

If you don't have a surplus, you can't be rich.

But! Bai Gyu asked these people to bring the seeds of crops that were adapted to the cultivation here in Linquan. And also! Bring basic production tools. Such! After settling here, you save some costs.

Among these people, there are also some craftsmen and craftsmen. Baekyu also asked them to bring their own production tools.

After these people come to Linquan, as long as they arrange a place for them to live, provide them with tents and materials to build houses, they basically solve the problem of survival.

Later! As long as they are provided with food for half a year, it will be fine. They want food, and those who can work can go to work and participate in the construction of cities. You give me labor, and I give you rations.

And also! Can also help me deliver the goods. You can help me transport the goods from Linquan to the prairie, or you can transport the goods from the grassland from Linquan to Zhongshan. As long as you help me to work, I will give you food.

In addition to giving birth, women who come to Linquan also have to take care of children and the elderly. Other than that! And also farming. All the old men who can farm will go to farm.

If you don't open up the wasteland and farm, your family will have no land.

Children who are able to work have to participate in labor during the day and attend night school "literacy classes" at night to read and write.

After getting the preliminary statistics, Baekyu was in a hurry.

"So many people at once?"

"Yes! White officials! There are only a little more than 2,000 laborers. Thereinto! There are also many people who are physically disabled, they are disabled on the battlefield, they are missing arms and legs. There are only more than 2,000 women who can give birth. There are more than 2,000 half-grown children, and the rest are old people and small babies. ”

"What about craftsmen? How many? Baekyu asked again.

"There aren't many craftsmen, but! All walks of life. They all did as you instructed, brought their special tools, and went to open their businesses. ”

"Hmm!" Baekyu snorted.

After basically understanding the situation, Bai Gui frowned for a long time before he gathered the guards and others together to discuss the population migration plan. Since more than 10,000 people from Wei have come and left Wei, they can't let them go back, so they can only accept it.

However! The population is still needed, and the population must continue to migrate in the past to develop the economy.

It's just that! There can be no more whole families, whole families, migrations. It is only possible to accept conditionally, which strong young people, preferably women, can be accepted.

The more women the better, especially women who are able to have children, young women who do not have family burdens.

In this era of war, there is no shortage of women.

Furthermore! Women can have children!

A woman can have a child in just over a year. So! Only when there are more women can the population grow rapidly.

There are more women, and after more than ten years, their first child can work in the field, and even: they can go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and defend the country.

With the first population, that is, more than ten years later, Linquan Castle will change greatly.

In the past ten years, as long as he Bai Gui manages it well and ensures that they can survive, it will be considered a complete merit.

"Tell the treasurers everywhere to keep an eye out for women. We're in the spring! What is most lacking now is women, women who can give birth, single women who have no family burdens. With such a woman, we have a lot of needs in Linquan......" Bai Gui confessed.

"It's easy to do!" A shopkeeper said with a smile: "In the post-war country, there are a lot of women!" ”

"That? There must be many widows in the Qin State! ”

"I want a single woman, not a widow. Widows, in general, have children and other family members. They can't migrate! They are responsible for supporting the baby and other family members. ”

Baekyu explained, "That's it! All the guards around me! Each of you will bring me a single woman to Linquan and make a home in Linquan. Such! Not only do you have more children, but you can also have homes on both sides. How is it? ”

The guards around Bai Gui generally have families in their home countries. It's just that! Their families are secret, and the government of their country does not know about them.

"White officials! That's a good idea! ”

Everyone laughed.

If that's the case? When they returned to Zhoudi later, Zhoudi had a family, a wife, and children. And when I followed Bai Guanren to Linquan Castle, there was a family there. Hey! It's beautiful just thinking about it!

"What if that's the case? Let's not move people around for a while, do we? Each of you will bring me a single woman, and that's it! Baekyu said seriously.

When the others heard this, they all looked at the white officials and laughed.

(End of chapter)